Bankers on top spot
BANK OF PNG shot to number one spot after defeating bottom team Fire Service PNG 18-14 in Round 9 of the Corporate 9 competition last Friday at Lloyd Robson Oval in Port Moresby. The win has placed the Bankers three points away from their three nearest rivals IBS, PPL Giants and Nambawan Super – who all share 23 points apiece. Nambawan Super beat PPL Giants 14-10 while IBS grounded Air Niugini 14-14 last week which saw little change on the competition ladder. Early competition leaders and fifth spot Smart Bank Kundus thrash Eda Ranu Ratz 30-10. The other results are: Ravenpol Tigers beat NCDC 16-14, Telikom beat SP Brewery 14-4, Bishop Brothers 26 down Fincorp 26-14.

Tennis programme launch
PNG Tennis Federation will launch its 2008 ANZ Bank Mini Tennis program this weekend at Bava Tennis Court at Boroko. Coach Kwalam Apisah said the program will be launch in the presence of the ANZ management. The tennis programme has been successful with students winning scholarship to study in Regional Oceania Tennis College in Fiji. Some of the students are Marcia Apisah and Jacklyn Lahari who have further her tennis career in Dallas Texas, USA.

Touch for the chiefs
HEALTH conscious executives from the corporate and government sector can now partake in physical exercise at their own pace and with their own peers. Executive Touch is an initiative taken by PNG Touch Federation president Joe Yore and his colleges. Executive Touch is headed by Watt Kiddie of Kiddie and Associates and has games every Tuesday nights at Lloyd Robson Oval. ET is looking at going national after establishing itself in Port Moresby and according Kiddie and Yore the concept should catch on and grow as many top level executives around the country are becoming more and more aware of the need to be active and get away from the sedentary lifestyle.

Taekwondo body launched
TAEKWONDO in PNG has set about trying to re-launch itself under the new banner of the PNG Taekwondo Union. The body held its inaugural meeting to elect executives in Port Moresby’s Sir John Guise Indoor Sports Complex last Friday. Office bearers are Jamuga Stone (president), Alex Tongayu (vice-president), Eddie Kavina (secretary) with the treasurer’s position yet to be announced. The body has been registered with the Investment Promotion Authority and is an initiative taken by senior members of the taekwondo fraternity to get the sport reorganised in order to coordinate the progress and development of taekwondo in PNG.